Cinematica 3/02: Argo see this film!

byDanonOctober 24, 2012

Ben Affleck’s tense and funny ARGO, Academy Award front-runner THE INTOUCHABLES, Brad Pitt is a philosophical mob enforcer in KILLING THEM SOFTLY plus Dean Hewison from the Kiwi peeping tom-romcom HOW TO MEET GIRLS FROM A DISTANCE.

Dan Slevin is a New Zealand-based writer, broadcaster, editor and consultant. He was cinema reviewer for the Capital Times weekly newspaper from September 2006 until its demise in April 2013, seeing and reviewing every film commercially released in Wellington in that time (except, for some reason, Flicka or Beverly Hills Chihuahua).

Dan is a regular contributor to Radio New Zealand National’s Nine to Noon programme, produced and co-hosted the movie podcast, Cinematica and in his “spare” time he is editor of FishHead — Wellington’s magazine.

In addition to being the finest swordsman in all France, he is also the meanest hombre west of the Pecos. He tweets here.

Why Funerals & Snakes? In Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (Le Mépris; 1963), Fritz Lang said of CinemaScope: “It’s only good for funerals and snakes.”